Code reviewMediumcr-g460

Subject Sign errorsLevel Mid–Senior~16 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Go function that buckets an event into a fixed-width time bucket (e.g. for a histogram), where `ts` is a Unix timestamp that may be negative for pre-1970 backfilled events.

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Code to reviewgo

1func bucketStart(ts, width int64) int64 {2    return ts - ts%width3}

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